Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2008. / Title from first page of PDF file. Includes bibliographical references (p. 364-398).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Institut Europeen d'Administration des Affaires (France), 2005. / Co-Chairs: Arnoud De Meyer, Luk Van Wassenhove. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.B.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1991.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1968. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 230-234).

Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs) Naval Postgraduate School, June 1997. / Thesis advisors, Peter Lavoy, Robert Looney. Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-95). Also available online.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 69-74).

The core of thesis lays in quantitative analysis of microeconomic data on public procurement and alternative forms of dealing with public money. It consists of three essays with one common attribute: extensive groundwork with data, including overlaps into legal and technical disciplines. The fist essay examines the relationship between transparency of ownership structure and (i) profits of firms winning public procurement contracts and (ii) competition for the contracts and savings of the public authority. It identifies a significant advantage of firms with opaque ownership structure in terms of access to public money. It concludes with a possible explanation of conflict of interest and corruption, which might channel such advantages. The second essay proposes and tests a novel methodology for benchmarking of contracting authorities. The proposed rating measures a deviation from best practice recommendations in the areas of openness, competition and transparency. Indirectly it measures efficiency and corruption potential in public procurement. The pilot results of the methodology are provided and extensively discussed for a group of Czech municipalities. Third essay investigates issue of crowding out effect potentially introduced by EU funds provision. It studies direct budgetary impacts of...

Variations and other changes to public contracts under FIDIC standard forms Abstract This thesis deals with variations and other change institutes according to the FIDIC Red Book (hereinafter referred to as "CONS") enforced under the Act No. 134/2016 Coll., On Public Procurement, as amended. The main aim of this thesis is to analyze the possibility to effectively implement complex construction projects in the Czech legal environment, especially with regard to the fact that individual complex construction projects deal with, in their implementation phase, the necessity to change the work, the price for the work, but also the time of completion and handover of a work due to unforeseeable or unforeseen circumstances. The law of public procurement, with reference to the principles of free competition and, in order to ensure the effectiveness of the management of public funds, limits the possibility of the public contract modifications by means of the doctrine of the substantial and non-substantial modification. Large construction projects often exceed the estimated value of the public contract by more than 100 %, which puts a great deal of pressure on the correct and lawful subsumption of changes under the legal grounds of modifications of the contract according to section 222 of the Act on Public Procurement....

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The problematic aspects of awarding of public procurement from the perspective of the municipality. The aim of this thesis is a presentation of certain problems associated with awarding of public procurement by public authority - the municipality. This thesis is divided into three parts. The first part provides a general introduction to the topic. This part defines the basic terms and principles associated with public procurement, attention is also focused on a definition of local government units. At the beginning of the second part a legal framework of public procurement and a brief view of the future legislativ is presented. The most important section of this part describes bodies of the municipality and their competences associated with awarding of public procurement. Thereafter it deals with mistakes and shortcomings which may arise during the tender process from the part of municipalities. In this part specific situations coming from the practical experience of municipalities are described and analysed, including a list of potential impacts on municipalities. Attention is also paid to current jurisdiction and decision making practices of the Office for Protection of Competition. The final part of this thesis summarizes the conclusions drawn in the previous chapters.